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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write your social media posts.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA human social media specialist is the alternative; no price for that service is supplied in the available data.

If this goes wrong: the post sounds generic, contains a wrong detail or attracts the wrong response, and you can amend or remove it before using the same approach again.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open a plain document and write down the platform, audience, objective, offer, call to action and tone for the posts.
    2. Gather your current price list, product or service details, opening hours, promotion terms, approved claims and destination links.
    3. Paste those details into the prompt, replacing every bracketed slot, and state how many posts you need.
    4. Paste the completed prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask it to produce the drafts and factual-claims checklist.
    5. Compare every price, date, availability statement, result, link and business claim in the drafts with your current source material, then replace any item marked [NEEDS CONFIRMING].
    6. Read each post as the intended customer and remove wording that does not sound like your business or promises more than you can deliver.
    7. Paste the approved copy into the relevant social platform, attach an appropriate image or video, check the final preview and publish it.

    Prompt

    Write social media posts for my UK small business using only the information below. Invent no facts, prices, offers, customer results, stock levels, dates or links. If information is missing, mark it as [NEEDS CONFIRMING] rather than guessing.

Business: [BUSINESS NAME AND WHAT IT DOES]
Target audience: [WHO THE POST IS FOR]
Platform: [INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN, X OR OTHER]
Objective: [AWARENESS, ENQUIRIES, SALES, BOOKINGS OR OTHER]
Offer or message: [WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY]
Tone: [PLAIN, FRIENDLY, PROFESSIONAL OR OTHER]
Call to action: [WHAT THE READER SHOULD DO]
Relevant facts and source material: [PASTE YOUR CURRENT PRICE LIST, PRODUCT DETAILS, OPENING HOURS, TERMS, APPROVED CLAIMS AND LINKS]

Create [NUMBER] options. Keep each option suitable for the stated platform, use British English, avoid empty marketing phrases and do not make unsupported claims. Include a short suggested image or video idea separately from each post. Put any factual claims in a checklist after the drafts so I can compare them with my source material before publishing.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI does not know the parts of your reputation, customer relationships and local context that you have not put into the brief.
  • It defaults to familiar marketing language, so the post can sound like every other small business unless you provide examples of your real voice.
  • It cannot decide whether a bold claim is commercially wise or acceptable for your business without the underlying evidence and your judgement.
  • It can preserve an outdated price, offer, opening hour or link from the material you paste, so current source information remains your responsibility.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: taste, context depth and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write social media posts for my small business?
Yes. It can turn your business information into drafts for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn, but you need to provide the current facts and approve the wording before publishing.
Can AI write social media posts in my brand voice?
Partly. Give it examples of your existing posts, words to use and words to avoid, but check the result because it cannot fully know your relationships with customers or the judgement behind your voice.
Is it safe to use AI for business social media posts?
It is suitable for drafting if you check every claim, price, date, offer, link and image before publishing. Your business remains responsible for misleading promotions, inaccurate information and customer complaints.
What information should I give AI to write a social media post?
Give it the platform, audience, objective, offer, call to action, tone and current source material such as prices, terms, opening hours and approved claims. Tell it to invent nothing and mark missing information for you to confirm.

Nearby answers

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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